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The manufacturer Ernst August Paul von Borsig (*13. September 1869 in Berlin Moabit; "† 6 January 1933) led together with its brothers Arnold Borsig (*23. June 1867; "† 1 April 1897) and Conrad of Borsig (*23. April 1873; "† 1945) the Borsigwerke in Berlin, created by its grandfather August Borsig. He put 1889 down into Berlin the Abitur and completed afterwards one and a half-year old one technical training in the mechanical engineering institute A. Borsig. Subsequently, it studied Bonn and the technical university in Charlottenburg at the university.

There the three brothers with the death of her father Albert Borsig ("† 10 April 1878) still children were, led first a Kuratorium from leading employees the enterprise, before the brothers 1894 the management took over. Ernst Borsig had - after the accidental death of Arnold Borsig with a pit misfortune in Schlesien - relevant portion of the resettlement of the Moabiter workshops after Berlin Tegel. For this purpose it visited a number of well-known factories at home and abroad, some its technical officials sent it to expanded study trips to England and America. From this developed the drafts for the new work, which became after its completion 1898 a citizen of Berlin landmark. By the common line of the enterprise with its brother a new style of leadership appeared Conrad, away from the patriarchalischen guidance to the modern management.

1898 married Ernst Borsig Margarete it four children gave (Karl Albert Arnold *1899, Margret *1900, Annelise *1902, Ernst *1906). 1902 he was appointed the royal Kommerzienrat, 1909 was raised he and its brother Conrad into the hereditary nobility, 1912 took place the appointment as the royal secret Kommerzienrat. The technical university Breslau honoured it 1918 by the award of the academic degree of Dr. - engineer h. C.

After the Lokomotivbau was sold 1931 to the AEG, the A. Borsig GmbH at the end had to adjust this yearly their payments, the family separated from the enterprise. Ernst von Borsig withdrew itself to his property largely Behnitz (quarter from Nauen in the Havelland), where he in the boron industrial union family burial place, as its father found, his last peace before.

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